The Little Deputy is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Trevor Anderson and starring Luke Oswald, released in 2015.

[1] This short film blurs documentary and fiction as Anderson re-creates a photograph taken with his father at a West Edmonton Mall photography business while wearing western garb when he was a child in the 1980s.

Using the visual tropes of dramatic reenactments seen in documentaries,[2] the photographer initially mistakes young Anderson (played by Luke Oswald) for a girl and offers him a red dress to wear.

[3] The second act of The Little Deputy manifests Anderson's childhood wish to wear the red gown.

Filmed at Fort Edmonton, Anderson lives his childhood fantasy, wearing a red gown created custom for the director/actor, designed by Nicole Bach-Lebrecque[4] and created by Joanna Johnston,[5] to re-take the photograph.